Lois Lucille Buehler Phariss

Lois Lucille Buehler Phariss
Lois Lucille Buehler Phariss, 105, passed away, July 18, 2019 at The Neighborhoods at Quail Creek in Springfield.
Phariss was born July 8, 1914 in the Zion Community of Lawrence County, to Samuel R. and Blanche Gertrude McCormick Buehler. She attended grade school at the Zion School, before attending high school at Verona and completing requirements for a teaching certificate at the high school in Aurora. She was married to Raymond Byron Phariss in1932 in Barry County.
They were business partners in the operation of their family farm on Kings Prairie, Barry County, southeast of Monett. In 1950, they received the National W.G. Skelly Award for their Outstanding Agriculture and Community Work.
She lived in the Kings Prairie Community for over 50 years, where she was active in community affairs, serving in organizations that were seeking to improve their school and church. She worked several years as Ward Clerk at the Aurora Community Hospital. She was a member of the First Christian Church in Monett for over 70 years. She was a member of the Monett Garden Club, the Christian Women’s Fellowship, and the Alexander McNair Chapter of the Daughters of the American Revolution. She was a fifth generation Lawrence Countian, tracing her ancestry to Lee’s, McCormick’s and Evans. She was an avid gardener and a professional seamstress. She won awards for her quilt making and gardening.
She is survived by: daughters, Noralee Faulkner of Shell Knob and Noveta (Clovis) Richardson of Little Rock, Ark.; as well as six grandchildren;13 great-grandchildren; and 10 great-great-grandchildren. She was preceded in death by: her husband and sister, Sammy Dee Evans. Funeral services were held July 22, 2019 at the Buchanan Funeral Home in Monett. Interment was in the Spring River Cemetery at Verona. Memorials may be made to First Christian Church of Monett or charity of choice in her honor. Arrangements have been entrusted to Buchanan Funeral Home, 301 Euclid Ave, Monett.